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Thursday, August 13, 2009

* 7 Investor Traits to Achieve Success

This is a guest post from one of DIV-Net's finest value investors, Jae Jun of Old School Value blog:

I'm not here to teach you how to be a great investor. On the contrary, I'm here to tell you why very few of you can ever hope to achieve this status.
It doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how many books you've read or how good you are with numbers. The truth is that you may never be as good as you think.

This was a speech by Mark Sellers of Sellers Capital to Harvard MBA student's in 2007. It was also one of the handful of good reading material that helped me to look beyond numbers and performance in my early investing career.

It is a speech that helps to expose weaknesses and build on your strengths.

You can read all of Berkshire's letters, Buffett's words of wisdom but when it comes to crunch time, why do so many people fail to even beat the market let alone compound their money at extraordinary rates?

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